| Letters to the editor, 2001 |
| TOPIC: Energy plan May 2001 Dear Editor In reference to the Bush Administration's proposed energy plan: The debate is involving politicians, fossil fuel and nuclear energy industry representatives and environmental groups. Where are the citizens in the debate? In the late 1970s, the Swedish government opened the debate about a national energy policy to any Swede who participated in a 10-hour workshop on energy choices. More than 2% of the population took part, equivalent to 2 million U.S. voters participating in discussions. Here at the Center for Creating the Future, a think tank based in Fort Lauderdale, we have gathered viewpoints from across the spectrum of the energy debate. We invite your readers to visit www.creatingthefuture.org to inform themselves. The debate should include the people who will live next to the proposed new power plants, so the time to get involved is now. Jack Latona The Center for Creating the Future [email protected] www.creatingthefuture.org Fort Lauderdale, FL USA |
| Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:30 AM To: Letters, sun sentinel Subject: live-work development To the Editor: I want to congratulate Alan Hooper and the City of Fort Lauderdale Community Redevelopment Agency for moving forward with development of a live-work project in Flagler Heights. Among other benefits, live-work arrangements will lead to a smoothing out of rush-hour traffic at no expense for road improvements. We don`t need to give up our downtown offices, just do some work at home in the morning or late afternoon and avoid the rush hour. The future of traffic improvement lies in smarter thinking, not more large-scale road projects. Jack Latona The Center for Creating the Future [email protected] www.creatingthefuture.org Fort Lauderdale, FL USA |
| See this page about the Filioque dispute When will the word "Filioque" be used only in discussions of history, not to arouse sentiments of readers and to divide communities? |
www.economist.com To the Editor: 12 August 2001 The Center for Creating the Future thanks you for publishing the interview with Bjorn Lomborg. It has been difficult to find such information in mainstream sources. Unfortunately, most liberals (in your sense) have left these facts to the right wing to misuse. The Center for Creating the Future has a Julian Simon Award and we will be pleased to award it to Lomborg for this year. It is a sad commentary on academia and the media that Simon's death went largely unnoticed while Paul Erlich and his ilk remain "experts". The Center believes that the doomsayers have always been wrong: Malthus, The Club of Rome, today's anti-globalists, etc. That's not to say that the issues they raise are not of concern, they are, and that's where we differ from the Right. The point is that we have successfully dealt with all these threats thus far and there is no reason to believe we will not continue to do so. In fact, giving in to the Luddites, the solution usually put forth by these scaremongers, is the only way we might end up fulfilling their dour prophecies. submitted to [email protected] |
| Transportation ... Air transportation.... To the Editor: Sept. 2001 The Sun-Sentinel published two articles on Sunday, September 9, that elaborated on two of the key issues facing U. S. and local transportation: over-dependence on the automobile for ground transportation and the increasing demand for air travel. The Center for Creating the Future,Inc., a Fort Lauderdale based think tank has had several meetings on the future of transportation and is presently conduction a study for Broward County on the future of parking in our county. The problem is a simple one to state: more people wanting to go more places more quickly. Your aviation writer, Ken Kaye, is correct, longer runways are not the biggest consideration concerning bigger (up to 1,000passengers) jets: it�s the ramps and gates that will need to be enlarged and the terminals, parking, and access roads as well. Just as with our highways, much of this is due to peak hour congestion: everyone wants his or her plane to leave at just certain times: early, mid-day, and the end of the business day, just like rush hour on the roads twice a day. We spend enormous amounts of capital to deal with these peak hour logjams. Imagine Toys-R-Us hiring the same number or sales people in June as December. James Fallows has written a book, Free Flight, advocating a dramatic reconfiguration of air travel from the hub-and-spoke system now in use, to a widely dispersed, point-to-point system. It is, however, hard to imagine we will turn away from the huge capital investments, public and private, in present facilities and equipment and those which are planned, for a totally different arrangement. Nonetheless, new ideas are always valuable, they keep us thinking. Similarly, while virtually all transportation planners are urging much greater use of public transportation, it appears unlikely we will pry very many fingers off of steering wheels in the near future. Public transportation will, instead, primarily serve those who cannot drive: the elderly, the poor, and the disabled. Only when the critical mass of population gets overwhelming, a point we�re not close to in South Florida, (see New York or Los Angles for real traffic �and still, most people there choose to drive), will most people change their auto-erotic behavior. Much more could be written, but thanks to the Sun-Sentinel for bringing these issues to public attention. |
| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:31:56 -0600 To: [email protected] Subject: To Chris Dodge Chris Dodge Utne Reader Librarian [email protected] December 15, 2001 Dear Mr. Dodge In addition to magazines, you should direct your readers to web magazines and web sites. In addition to the skeptical magazines you listed in the recent edition, you should have mentioned www.randi.org <http://www.randi.org/> , which carries Swift, a web-zine, edited weekly by James Randi, famed debunker of the paranormal. Most of your readers probably don't want to visit our site, www.creatingthefuture.org <http://www.creatingthefuture.org/> , where we recently awarded the Chicken Little Award to Paul Ehrlich and the first annual Julian Simon Award to statistics professor Bjorn Lomborg of Denmark. We are, nonetheless, long-time readers and refer our readers to the Utne Reader as a valuable resource .Jack Latona The Center for Creating the Future, Inc. 201 SE 12th Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 (954) 523-8899 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.creatingthefuture.org REPLY Jack Latona, thanks for your suggestions and information. I've shared word of Swift already with the Utne Reader online staff. With good wishes engaging the public in public policy making, Chris Dodge, Librarian Utne Reader, LENS Publishing Co. Phone: (612) 338-5040 1624 Harmon Place, Suite 330 FAX: (612) 338-6043 Minneapolis, MN 55403 USA E-mail: [email protected] Utne Reader Online: http://www.utne.com Utne Reader Web Watch: http://www.utne.com/webwatch Street Librarian: http://www.bigfoot.com/~streetlibrarian |
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